–Mowed the lawn; put chlorine in the pool.
–Barbecued turkey burgers, corn, squash.
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–Latex gloves came in. Different from what I had for years, but very nice–vastly better than the black ones.
–Went to Dr. Cripe. Sandy did a thorough cleaning and took digital x-rays. Cripe (sort of) smoothed out the sharp edge of my front tooth, mentioned a cracked tooth, and said “see you in six months.” Works for me.
–Watched an episode of Dr. Blake.
–Masamoto carbon came in. Kanji was either deeply inked or very shallowly engraved, contrary to seller who said it’s years old. Also had some unremovable pitting, in addition to the ugly handle. Tossed it.
–Serious smoke out there today, hazy and smelly. As I continue looking into Pacific Grove, I note that a house that went up for $925,000 a couple weeks ago just sold for $1,200,000. Crap.
–Added water to the pool. Coincidentally or not, everything slowed down: skimmer, sweeper robot. Incredibly frustrating. Will clean filter tomorrow–again–though I’m not optimistic.
–Bought on eBay a crown tube for my Rolex Datejust and a tool to install it. Got the old one out with a broaching tool; it wasn’t ultra tight. The threads on the old one were really sparse and worn, so it took only a fourth of a turn or so to go from unscrewed to screwed in. Really curious to see why none of my tube wrenches came close to fitting.
–Cleaned up a little outside for the pre-paint inspection.
–Tekna shell came in from Tony Campagna. Built a regulator. Had to use metal internals because the diaphragms in the two plastic ones were shot. Ordered a couple (Oceanic) diaphragms from Coral Sea in Oregon.
–Took a swim. Too breezy.
–Cleaned up the Egyptian pharaonic coin. There was still lots of rust after removing some with Evaporust; it took a wire wheel on the Foredom to really get rid of the stuff. Polished with Mother’s Mag. It immediately took a patina, but seems free of surface problems at the moment. We’ll see.
–Made pizza for dinner with leftover slow-cooked cherry tomatoes. Yum! Made brownies for dessert.
–Fooled around with the pool for a bit. Didn’t get far.
–Rolex Sea-Dweller 1665 1980 came in. Original dial/bezel/bracelet, case recut and (probably) color-matched hands and (probably) complete overhaul by LAWW, running great (amplitude > 310, .1ms beat error). Beautiful watch.
–Tied back some bamboo plants, tidied up rocks displaced when I was optimizing drip lines, added a dripper to a grass plant I missed first time around, fertilized the “crops.”
–Took a swim.
–Rode the canal with Tom Elken; had a nice visit afterward.
–Went to the Orangevale farmers market for tomatoes, squash, donut peaches, salsa–except the Salsa Chick wasn’t there (again).
–Took a shower; shaved with Wolfman. Definitely has more blade feel than (say) the Gibbs, but no nicks and a very close shave.
–Grace discovered a couple of green inchworms eating her herbs. Crap.
–Picked up Day-Date bracelet from Rolliworks at FedEx center on Sunrise. Works fine.
–Played with Samsung flip phone. Learned (probably for the third time) that although there are Samsung Android phones that will run the Resound app, this Samsung Android phone will not. And I already knew that the speaker volume was not much (if any) better than that on the iPhone. Crap.
–Leica Q2 finally came in. Beauty.